Patents Examined by Brian S Roberts
  • Patent number: 11363675
    Abstract: A mesh network system adapted for a wireless access point includes multiple mesh network nodes, which are a root node, relay nodes, and leaf nodes. The root node is communicatively connected to the wireless access point. The relay nodes and the leaf nodes are configured to receive a downlink message having a downlink destination address. When one of the relay nodes that receives the downlink message determines that the downlink destination address fails to match its mesh network address, the relay node queries a routing table to find a next-hop node address directing to the downlink destination address and forwards the downlink message to the mesh network node corresponding to the next-hop node address. When one of the leaf nodes that receives the downlink message determines that the downlink destination address fails to match its mesh network address, the leaf node discards the downlink message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventors: Jing-Jun Wu, Cui Ding, Zuo-Hui Peng, Zhao-Ming Li, Guo-Feng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11350339
    Abstract: A first network device wirelessly transmits announcement messages in quick succession over multiple channels that represent normal operating channels of other network devices. The other network devices receive one of the announcement messages over their respective operating channels, and then send a message to one or more servers indicating that one of the announcement messages has been received. Various parameters and information related to the received announcement message, such as RSSI, SNR, and the contents of the announcement message, are included in the message sent to the one or more servers by each of the other network devices. The one or more servers then incorporate information in the messages sent from the other network devices into a network connectivity graph or table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Chiu Ngok Eric Wong, Choong Ryeol Lee, Shashi Bushan Pavuluri, Karan Dilip Pradhan
  • Patent number: 11349762
    Abstract: According to one or more embodiments of the present invention, a frame processing method of a distributed antenna system may include confirming whether a quality of service (QoS) tag exists in header information of a received frame; performing frame scheduling of the frame based on the QoS tag; and dropping or transmitting the frame according to a transmission priority according to a result of the frame scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Hoo Pyo Hong, Dong Hee Kwon, Hee Hwan Kwak
  • Patent number: 11343034
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for downlink control information (DCI) transmission and receiving in a wireless communication system. A DCI configuration parameter can be first transmitted to a terminal device; and then DCI is transmitted to the terminal device, wherein the DCI configuration parameter indicates time-frequency resources for the DCI. With embodiments of the present disclosure, the UE could perform a flexible DCI monitoring according to the DCI configuration parameter and thus it may support the DCI monitoring occasion change due to numerology and scheduling unit size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hongmei Liu, Gang Wang
  • Patent number: 11343749
    Abstract: A method of controlling communications within a wireless communications network is provided. The method comprises determining, by a first of the infrastructure equipment acting as a donor node connected to a core network part of the wireless communications network, that a plurality of different communications paths exist from a second infrastructure equipment to the first infrastructure equipment via one or more other infrastructure equipment acting as relay nodes, transmitting, by the first infrastructure equipment, an indication at least part of each of one or more of the plurality of different communications paths to the second infrastructure equipment, and selecting, by the second infrastructure equipment based on the indication received from the first infrastructure equipment, at least one of the plurality of different communications paths for communicating with the first infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11337136
    Abstract: A method of routing communication between nodes of at least one network including a mesh network is provided. The method includes each node of the mesh network advertising a hop distance relative to a head node of the mesh network. The hop distance is a measure of how many hops the node is from the head node, the head node having a hop distance of zero. Respective subscriber nodes of at least one subscriber node of the mesh network each transmit via an upstream route to the head node a request to subscribe to a topic of a plurality of possible topics, the upstream route being determined based on the hop distance advertised by first routing nodes included in the upstream route. Each first routing node records routing information that identifies the first routing node's adjacent downstream first routing node. The respective subscriber nodes subscribe to the corresponding topic for which it transmitted a request to subscribe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Adam Kuenzi
  • Patent number: 11324075
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclose a computer-implemented method for transmitting data between node devices in a mesh network comprising receiving, by a first node device within the mesh network that supports a first set of communication modes, a first information element that specifies a second set of communication modes supported by a second node device within the mesh network, determining, based on the first information element, a common set of communication modes that includes at least a default mode and a first mode, where each communication mode included in the common set of communication modes is supported by both the first node device and the second node device, selecting, from the common set of communication modes, the first mode as a first preferred communication mode for data transmissions between the first node device and the second node device, and configuring a communication link between the first node device and the second node device according to the first mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: ITRON, INC.
    Inventor: Donald Eugene Sturek
  • Patent number: 11310778
    Abstract: The present invention is designed so that UCI can be transmitted properly even when a PUSCH of a long TTI and an sPUSCH of a short TTI collide with each other in a same carrier. According to the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits UCI, and a control section that controls re-direction of at least part of the UCI, when a PUSCH of a long TTI carrying the UCI, and an sPUSCH of a short TTI, collide with each other in a same carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Lihui Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11310717
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a relay node selection method and device, which are used to solve the problem of no relay node selection method being available currently for communication modes such as UE-to-Network Relay or UE-to-UE Relay. According to the embodiments of the present application, a first device receives a report message sent by at least one relay node; and the first device selects a target relay node from among the at least one relay node so that a remote terminal establishes a connection with a target node by means of the target relay node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lin Lin, Ying Peng, Rui Zhao
  • Patent number: 11304116
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may determine a link quality for one or more links associated with the first UE. A link quality for a link of the one or more links may be based at least in part on one or more measurements associated with at least a subset of a plurality of beams of the link. The first UE may generate, based at least in part on the link quality for the one or more links associated with the first UE, a connectivity graph of at least a portion of a wireless network in which the first UE is included. The first UE may identify, using the connectivity graph, a route to a third UE included in at least the portion of the wireless network. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sony Akkarakaran, Tao Luo, Junyi Li, Juan Montojo, Jung Ho Ryu, Kapil Gulati, Hong Cheng
  • Patent number: 11304117
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a method for selectively forwarding data messages between a plurality of neighboring wireless communication nodes. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding wireless communication node and to a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: CPAC SYSTEMS AB
    Inventor: Christian Eggertsen
  • Patent number: 11296836
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for an NR (New Radio Access Technology) user equipment to transmit and receive a signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises the steps of checking a PDCCH (Physical Downlink Control Channel) order and, if the PDCCH order is checked, initiating a random access procedure. In this case, if a first uplink carrier and a second uplink carrier are configured, the random access procedure is configured to transmit a random access preamble via a specific uplink carrier corresponding to an indicator associated with the PDCCH order among the first uplink carrier and the second uplink carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngtae Kim, Yunjung Yi, Jaehyung Kim, Duckhyun Bae, Inkwon Seo, Suckchel Yang, Hyunho Lee, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 11290942
    Abstract: A communications node of a multi-node communications network is disclosed. In embodiments, the communications node includes a communications interface and controller. The controller transitions the clustering status of the communications node to a clusterhead node status. The clusterhead node identifies a cluster of neighboring nodes with which it is in communication by transmitting hello messages identifying the clusterhead node and its status but omitting a one-hop neighbor list. The clusterhead node refines link discovery to the nodes of the multi-node communications network by flooding the network (e.g., via its cluster of neighboring nodes) with routing status messages, which network nodes not part of the dominating set of clusterhead nodes are restricted from sending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Tj T. Kwon, Ray L. Cross, James A. Stevens
  • Patent number: 11283551
    Abstract: Provided are a method for a terminal resending data in a wireless communication system, and a communication device using same. The method comprises: receiving downlink control information (DCI) from a network; and resending data on the basis of the DCI, wherein the DCI includes an acknowledgement/not-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seungmin Lee, Suckchel Yang, Seonwook Kim, Joonkui Ahn
  • Patent number: 11284332
    Abstract: In some aspects, a network node may determine a connection identifier associated with transmitting data to a decoder node via multiple paths, wherein the connection identifier is associated with a single radio bearer of a user equipment (UE); encode a first portion of data into first packets and second packets; transmit the first packets and the connection identifier to the decoder node via a first path; transmit the second packets and the connection identifier to the decoder node via a second path; receive a response from the decoder node, wherein the response includes the connection identifier; and transmit, to the decoder node and based at least in part on the response, one of: third packets, encoded from the first portion of data, and the connection identifier, or one or more sets of packets, encoded from a second portion of data, and the connection identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Naeem Akl, Karl Georg Hampel, Navid Abedini, Jianghong Luo, Junyi Li, Luca Blessent, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11284372
    Abstract: Systems and methods of reducing power consumption associated with paging or cDRX mode are described. A wake-up receiver (WUR) wakes up from an idle mode or cDRX state. Whether a wake-up signal (WUS) has been received by the WUR is determined. The WUS is a low-complexity signal that is less complicated than a PDCCH or PDSCH and is repeated multiple times at resource elements as indicated in a configuration from an eNB. If received, a baseband transceiver wakes up for reception of a PDCCH for the UE in a PO when the UE is in the idle mode or a PDSCH for the UE when the UE is in the cDRX state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy F. Cox, Seunghee Han, Debdeep Chatterjee, Vallabhajosyula S. Somayazulu, Qiaoyang Ye, Salvatore Talarico, Maruti Gupta Hyde
  • Patent number: 11277781
    Abstract: The proposal concerns a method of adaptive route selection in a node of a wireless mesh communication network. Such method is based on the Reinforcement Learning-based adaptive routing scheme. The proposal includes the idea of estimating initial reward values for the path discovery phase in dependence of the signal strength of the received signal and the number of hops the received route request message (RREQ) or route reply message (RREP) experienced during traversing in the network. Further improvements concern the idea of a feedback reward calculation for the routing absent the path discovery process as well as an improved method of route selection based on calculation of a temperature parameter for a Gibbs-Boltzmann distribution, which allows a dynamic adjustment of the node selection probabilities. Another improvement concerns a part of the reward function calculation, related to an exponential fallback mechanism on packet loss events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: HOCHSCHULE ANHALT
    Inventors: Dmitrii Dugaev, Eduard Siemens
  • Patent number: 11277778
    Abstract: A method and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are disclosed. The WTRU includes a receiver and a transmitter. The WTRU receives, from a primary downlink cell, a first scheduling assignment for a first uplink transmission and transmits first data in the first uplink transmission to at least a primary uplink cell using a first hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process. The WTRU receives, from the primary downlink cell, a second scheduling assignment, the second scheduling assignment indicating a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process identification of the first HARQ process, a modulation and coding set (MCS), and a transmission time opportunity, determines whether to retransmit the first data based on the HARQ process identification, and retransmits the first data in a second uplink transmission using the first HARQ process, the MCS, and the transmission time opportunity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Pantech Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Guodong Zhang, Sung-Hyuk Shin, Stephen E. Terry, James M. Miller, Stephen G. Dick
  • Patent number: 11272422
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, a system, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for user equipment of a mobile communication system. The method for a first user equipment (user equipment) of a mobile communication system includes determining a lack of coverage of the mobile communication system; determining two or more relay candidates, a relay candidate being a user equipment capable of providing network access for the first user equipment via direct communication; and selecting a second user equipment for network access from the two or more relay candidates based on a common route section of the first and second user equipments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Reimann, Guillaume Jornod, Steffen Schmitz
  • Patent number: 11272486
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In detail, the present invention is a method for transmitting data to a base station (BS) by a user equipment (UE) includes: receiving information on a contention-based Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) zone including a plurality of contention-based PUSCH resource blocks from the base station (BS); allocating at least one contention-based PUSCH resource block for transmission of the data based on the information on contention-based PUSCH zone; and transmitting the data to the base station (BS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Eunjong Lee, Jaehoon Chung, Genebeck Hahn, Jinmin Kim, Kukheon Choi, Kwangseok Noh